Definitions For Torture

noun

• The deliberate, systematic, or wanton infliction of physical or mental suffering by one or more persons in an attempt to force another person to yield information or to make a confession or for any other reason
• The act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean
• Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
• Extreme mental distress
• Unbearable physical pain
• The act of causing severe physical pain as a form of punishment or as a way to force someone to do or say something
• Something that causes mental or physical suffering : a very painful or unpleasant experience

verb

• Subject to torture
• Torment emotionally or mentally
• To cause (someone) to experience severe physical pain especially as a form of punishment or to force that person to do or say something
• To cause (someone) to feel very worried, unhappy, etc.